Bg. 3.22

न मे पार्थास्ति कर्तव्यं त्रिषु लोकेषु किञ्चन ।

नानवाप्त‍मवाप्त‍व्यं वर्त एव च कर्मणि ॥ २२ ॥

na me pārthāsti kartavyaṁ triṣu lokeṣu kiñcana

nānavāptam avāptavyaṁ varta eva ca karmaṇi

O son of Pṛthā, there is no work prescribed for Me within all the three
planetary systems. Nor am I in want of anything, nor have I a need to
obtain anything – and yet I am engaged in prescribed duties.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is described in the Vedic literatures as
follows:

tam īśvarāṇāṁ paramaṁ maheśvaraṁ

taṁ devatānāṁ paramaṁ ca daivatam

patiṁ patīnāṁ paramaṁ parastād

vidāma devaṁ bhuvaneśam īḍyam

na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate

na tat-samaś cābhyadhikaś ca dṛśyate

parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate

svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca

“The Supreme Lord is the controller of all other controllers, and He is the
greatest of all the diverse planetary leaders. Everyone is under His
control. All entities are delegated with particular power only by the
Supreme Lord; they are not supreme themselves. He is also worshipable by
all demigods and is the supreme director of all directors. Therefore, He is
transcendental to all kinds of material leaders and controllers and is
worshipable by all. There is no one greater than Him, and He is the supreme
cause of all causes.

“He does not possess a bodily form like that of an ordinary living entity.
There is no difference between His body and His soul. He is absolute. All
His senses are transcendental. Any one of His senses can perform the action
of any other sense. Therefore, no one is greater than Him or equal to Him.
His potencies are multifarious, and thus His deeds are automatically
performed as a natural sequence.” (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.7–8)

Since everything is in full opulence in the Personality of Godhead and is
existing in full truth, there is no duty for the Supreme Personality of
Godhead to perform. One who must receive the results of work has some
designated duty, but one who has nothing to achieve within the three
planetary systems certainly has no duty. And yet Lord Kṛṣṇa is engaged on
the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra as the leader of the kṣatriyas because the
kṣatriyas are duty-bound to give protection to the distressed. Although He
is above all the regulations of the revealed scriptures, He does not do
anything that violates the revealed scriptures.

K Rajaram IRS 5326

On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 at 17:20, Jambunathan Iyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> *“Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
> there.”*
> *- Will Rogers*
>
>
> *N Jambunathan , Chennai " What you get by achieving your goals is not as
> important as what you become by achieving your goals. If you want to live a
> happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things "*
>
>
>

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